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PATENTED APR. 18, 1905.

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PACKAGE WRAP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 13,1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER H. POLLOCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO MARY O.

PACKAGE-WRAP.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 787,465, dated April 18, 1905. Application filed July 13, 1904. Serial No. 216,406.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER H. PoLLooK, a citizen of the United States of America, re siding at New York city, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package-Wraps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates, primarily, to means for neatly and securely wrapping merchandise inlarge retail establishments to form packages to be carried by hand or to be shipped by express or mail.

It relates especially to means for so wrapping silks, velvets, chiffons, and like goods in their original folds and free from unnecessary creases.

The invention consists in a new article of manufacture for this purpose and for other present invention is to insure a perfect pack-' age and uninjured goods in the hands of the people customarily employed to wrap such ar-' ticles for customers.

Another object is to render the wrap reversible for returnable packages.

Another object is to facilitate the very rapid work which is essential in putting up such packages.

Three sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof.

Figure '1 is a view of the inner side or face of an improved package-wrap em bodying all the several features of the present invention. Fig. 2 represents a like view of the partly-folded wrap ready to receive the goods. Fig. 3 is a view of the folded wrap or of a package inclosed in the same. Fig. 4 represents a cross-section at A, Fig. 3, magnified. Fig. 5 is a view of the inner side of a wrap constructed on the same principle in part; and Fig. 6 represents a cross-section on the line B, Fig. 5, showing a sectional edge View of the wrap last named; and Figs. 7, 8, and 9, respectively, are face views of unfoldflap g, as in Fig. 9.

. ed wraps, illustrating additional species of the same invention.

Like reference letters and numbers refer to like parts in all thefigures.

Each of the improved packagewraps is adapted to be made of a single piece of stout Manila paper or other suitable flexible or foldable material, and each is constructed at midlength with a pair of short pockets 1 and 2 for the respective ends of the package to be wrapped, each of said pockets having two closed edges a and b and two open edges 0 and d, the open edges 0 being opposed to each other and the open edges cl atthe top of the pockets as they are shown in the drawings and as they are held in the process of wrapping a package. The closed edgesb make the ends of the folded wrap securely tight. Each of the improved package-wraps is further constructed with a bottom flap 3 and with a substantially triangular upper or outer flap 4, the latter provided or adapted to be readily furnished with a string 6, permanently attached by suitable means-as, for example, a pair of eyelets for with the latter, at least, or an equivalent fastening device, such as an elastic band 6, attached by a wire f under a sealed Each of the improved package-wraps is also preferably provided, as shown, with parallel creases 5, 6, and 7, indicating the transverse folds of the wrap, and with end creases 8 and 9 at right angles to said transverse creases, the width between said transverse folds having as its unit the width of the pockets 1 and 2 or the body or back g, at the ends of which the pockets are located.

The leading species (illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4) is especially designed for silks, velvets, chiffons, and other goods liable to crease in transit unless inclosed in carefully fitted and folded wraps. The improved wrap receives the goods in their usual folds and keeps them in that shape until they reach the customer. This species of the improved wrap may be furnished for use in the flat shape (represented by Fig. 1) with or without the string 6. The pockets 1 and 2 areformed by loose end flaps with depending bottom flaps 3 to form the closed bottoms a of the pockets and to render them self-ad justin g when folded in, as shown in Fig. 2, and its front width it is provided with a return-address, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, the wrap in this and other forms being reversible and adapted to be used for returning unsatisfactory goods by the consignee in the original folds.

In the species represented by Figs. 5 and 6 the lower edges a of the pockets 1 and 2 are closed by inturned portions in of the flaps, which form the fronts of the pockets gummed fast to the back 9. The bottom flap 3 is in this case, as in the first species, adapted to cover the whole depth of the pockets 1 and 2, and the converging lateral edges of the outer flap 4: begin immediately above the pockets.

In the species represented by Fig. 7 the upper or outer flap 4 is gummed to adapt the wrap to be sealed, the pockets 1 and 2 being formed by loose flaps, as in the first species, and of such length ,as to preclude reversing them after the wrap is folded.

In the species represented by Fig. 8 the ungummed reversible wrap of the first species is modified as to shape and proportions so as to adapt it for photographs, photographers proofs, and other miscellaneous goods, the pockets 1 and 2 being made short enough to be pulled out for an examination of the contents, if desired.

The species represented by Fig. 9, apart from the aforesaid elastic-band fastening e, is distinguished by pockets 1 and 2, having inturned bottom flaps k, which in this species are preferably ungummed, so as to render the wrap reversible. WVith either form of the improved wrap the contents of the package may be quickly placed in position on the wrap, and the selection of a wrap of the proper size is insured. This further insures the delivery of the goods withoutunnecessary folds or creases and at the same time Without using wraps unnecessarily large. The selection of a wrap of proper size is made manifest to the operative and to the inspector as soon as the ends of the package or goods to be wrapped are inserted in the pockets 1 and 2. The pockets thus form gages by which to determine in an instant the suitability of the wrap as to size, both as to width between the folds 5, 6, and 7 and the width between the folds 8 and 9 of the wrap. The pockets serve also to facilitate or assist in the wrapping operation by locating the folds 5 and 6 at their lower and upper edges (0 and (Z, respectively. In the folded wrap the lateral closed edges 7) of the pockets serve, moreover, to securely close the ends of the package, as be fore stated. The exposure of the goods between the pockets 1 and 2 before the wrap is folded enables the operative and the inspector to see at a glance if the goods are buckled by insufficient width of the wrap, which would result in creases if not detected and avoided by the use of a wrap of larger size. The bottom flap 3 serves to cover the delicate goods for which the wrap is primarily designed at the beginning of the wrapping operation, and thus to prevent soiling the goods by the fingers of the operative. At the same time, in connection with such bottom flap of the width between the .folds, the upper or closing flap 4 may be reduced to the least possible dimensions, as shown.

With either form of the improved wrap three folds in one and the same direction close it around the package or goods after the ends of the latter are in the pockets, and the attached string a or its equivalent adapts it to be quickly and securely fastened.

The proportions of the pockets 1 and 2, and the shape of the outer flap 4 especially, admit of other changes Without materially affecting the structure of the improved wrap. The string a may be twine, ribbon, ribbonband, or the like. Any known or improved metallic fastener that may be suitable may be substituted for either of the specific fastenings shown, the object being to dispense with the use of loose twine at the packing-counter, and other likemodifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art. j

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification 1. A package wrap of flexible material adapted to be made of a single piece, foldable along parallel transverse lines and having on its face at mid-length a pair of pockets closed along their bottoms and outer edges and open toward each other and toward the top of the wrap, the same being adapted to expose the goods between them and to serve as gages in determining the suitability of the wrap as to size and their closed outer edges serving to securely close the ends of the package, a bottom flap serving to cover the goods between the pockets at the beginning of the wrapping operation, and an outer flap at the top of the wrap for closing the package.

2. A package wrap of flexible material adapted to be made of a single piece, foldable along parallel transverse lines and having on its face at mid-length a pair of pockets closed along their bottoms and outer edges and open toward each other and toward the top of the wrap, the same being adapted to expose the goods between them and to serve as gages in determining the suitability of the Wrap as to size and their closed outer edges serving to securely close the ends of the package, a bottom flap serving to cover the goods between the pockets at the beginning of the wrapping operation, and an outer fiap at the top of the wrap for closing the package, provided with an attached fastening. 1

3. A reversible package-wrap of flexible material adapted to be made of a single piece foldable along parallel transverse lines and having on its face at mid-length a pair of pockets closed along their bottoms and outer edges and open toward each other and toward the top of the wrap, the same being arranged to expose the goods between them and formed by folds, a bottom flap serving to oover'the goods between the pockets at the beginning of the wrapping operation and an outer flap at the top of the wrap for closing the same, said outer flap including a front portion provided on one side with a return-address, the

wrap as a whole being adapted to be reversed by refolding it on the same lines, to provide for the return of silk and like goods in their original folds, substantially as'hereinbefore 5 specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WALTER H. POLLOGK. Witnesses:

WM. SIMON, LoUIs B. COOPER. 

